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say it: KRED-uht
credit is a noun and verb meaning "approval". It carries 13 recorded senses.
approval
“give her recognition for trying”
“he was given credit for his work”
“give her credit for trying”
money available for a client to borrow
an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise
“she already had several performances to her credit”
arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
“the student's essay failed to list several important citations”
“the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book”
“the article includes mention of similar clinical cases”
an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for credit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.